Quotes About Symbolism

Mythology is the song. It is the song of the imagination, inspired by the energies of the body.

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths.

The serpent, who dies and is resurrected, shedding its skin and renewing its life, is the lord of the central tree, where time and eternity come together.

Mythology is not invented rationally; mythology cannot be rationally understood.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

The dead are buried to be born again, and the cycles of the plant world become models for the myths and rituals of mankind.

Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.

Mythology is the song. Its the flight of the imagination inspired by the energy of the body.

a teacher should never touch symbols. If he is going to use psychology he should do so more in action than in words.

Don't they say that all the people in your dreams are really yourself?

As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather low artistic mentality never to believe anything you see unless it appears to be real. One must be willing to allow that symbolic things also mirror realities and sometimes provide greater esthetic pleasure than the merely realistic.

But how many senators, representatives, and justices are on our currency, have monuments on the National Mall, have their names on towns, cities, counties, states, or figure prominently in Hollywood movies, television, or cable series? Congress and the Supreme Court can be in or out of session. The president is the Energizer Bunnyâ"¢ of the American government.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

j'ai rêvé , l'autre nuit, que mon corps était des mots.

In this set of prescriptions, the beard enjoys a privileged position. It is indeed the symbol of virility, just as the veil is the symbol of feminity. But whereas the veil, as is normal, must conceal femi­ninity, the beard is intended on the contrary to draw attention to itself and in some sense exhibit virility. The beard is a form of masculinity. There is therefore a canonical duty to wear a beard.

Maybe my limbs are made mostly for decoration, like the way I feel about persimmons.

If I'd a handmade, fanned out, feathered set, me? I'd choose the moon, always the sister moon.

Jun Do remembered that he had no one that mattered to him, which was why his tattoo would be of an actress he'd never seen, taken from a calendar at the helm of a fishing boat.

Honestly," Jun Do said. "I don't even know why you guys do this, what's the point of tattooing your wife's face on your chest?" [...] "There is only one reason," the Captain said. "It's because it places her in your heart forever.

Na trzech stoi koronach, a sam bez korony; A ?ycie jego - trud trudów, A tytu? jego - lud ludów; Z matki obcej, krew jego dawne bohatery, A imi? jego czterdzie?ci i cztery.

It is the oldest depiction of the human body.

By 40,000 years ago, there are clear, unequivocal depictions of figurative art in multiple forms, and clear evidence for imagination, abstract thought, music and profound fine motor skills. Something had changed.

However, in contrast to the consistency of meaning of imagery concepts used in the Kabbala, which, as we have seen, resemble symbols, the situation in the Bible and the Talmud is quite different. There, the significance of any given concept is not uniform, and even in those cases where there is no doubt that such a covert meaning is intended, no standard key exists for its interpretation. Furthermore, there may well be more than one key for different aspects of its meaning.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.